This cache was initially placed by Visit Waimakariri in partnership with DOC in celebration of Conservation Week (1-8 November 2015).
This cache has been refreshed for Conservation Week 2016 (10-18 September) with three Air New Zealand mini torches and tags for the first three to find. If you take a selfie with the tag and post it on DOC’s facebook page: facebook.com/wildside you will go in the draw for one of 30 spot prizes. If you don’t find a torch you can still enter the DOC National Geocaching Challenge by first logging your find onto the geocaching website, then adding your details on the Geocaching Challenge page on the DOC website. The more DOC caches you find, the more chances you have to go in the draw for other prizes and the grand prize of return flights for four anywhere on the Air New Zealand Domestic network. Competition closes after 18 September 2016 – so get caching!
In particular we are focusing on local waterways and wetlands and great examples of native riparian planting.
As well as placing caches on public conservation land, DOC Rangiora is working with Visit Waimakariri to help locals discover other native plantings within the Rangiora / Kaiapoi community.
This is Rangiora's South Brook with some great planting undertaken by a commercial businesson the other side of the brook – and you don’t have to look far to see where these plants might have come from!